Deric's MindBlog

This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, behavior, psychology, and politics - as well as random curious stuff. (Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column.)

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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Frictionless Connection, Atomized Lives

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Two recent New York Times pieces published in the same issue describe different aspects of what may be the same large social transition. Jes...

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

The Vanishing Compass: When No Faction Looks Like the Good Guys

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In his final New York Times column (8/8/2026) , Ross Douthat — departing for CBS's 60 Minutes — offers a striking reversal from his us...

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Monday, February 23, 2026

The geometries of change and the value of being human

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I pass on and also archive for myself the following three ChatGPT 5.2 summaries of three recent Johar essays: Summary of The Geometries of ...

Friday, February 20, 2026

Changing our systems of governance

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I have found Johar's essay From Power Diagrams to Settlement-Construction: What we may be missing about the New Right to be worth sever...

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

New Ferality - Seeking new ways of being wild in new nature

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This post is to archive this link to a recent Venkatesh Rao essay, and also pass on condensations of its main ideas done by Google Gemini a...

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